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		<title>Finland and Education Success</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A video from BBC News about the world&#8217;s latest favorite education destination: Finland]]></description>
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		<title>Math Curriculum Makeover: Be less helpful</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Math makes sense of the world: Here&#8217;s math teacher Dan Meyer speaking at the TEDxNYED conference in March.]]></description>
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		<title>Failing is essential</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ratio between success and failure remains pretty constant. To succeed means we must fail. And the more often we fail the more we succeed. The key is to fail frequently and fail fast. Then move on and try something else. That was the message of Tina Seelig who works at the entrepreneurship center at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“The death of education as we know it may be the birth of learning as we need it”</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m more than a bit late with my NAIS annual conference round up but then …excuses, excuses…what with returning to Poughkeepsie with a rotten cold,  the remaining effects of a  mega storm that closed school for three days (ably dealt with by Steve Mallet and the division heads) and then all the catching up…. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;If a school fulfills its mission there must be constant evolution&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is quite possible that the assigning of grades to school children and college students as a kind of reward or punishment is useless or worse&#8230; I&#8217;ve discovered an absolute treasure trove of fascinating material: Popular Science has put its entire 137 year archive on line. The quotation above is from Examinations, Grades and Credits [...]]]></description>
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